ΤΗΕ GREAT AMERICAN BROADCAST

The Great American Broadcast
20th Century-Fox, 1941, B/W, 92 minutes
Released May, 1941

Looking to strike it rich in the business world, Chuck (Jack Oakie) and Rix (John Payne), GIs returning from WWI, make several unsuccessful attempts before hitting on the idea of broadcast radio. Joined by Rix' girl Vicki (Alice Faye), they begin to turn radio broadcasting into a goldmine. Of course, a love triangle messes things up for a while, but Chuck fixes all that by putting together the nation's first trans-continental radio hookup. All the big stars are there for this auspicious event - Eddie Cantor, Kate Smith, Rudy Vallee. And, of course, it's all a big success.

Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Associate Producer: Kenneth Macgowan
Director: Archie Mayo
Screenplay: Edwin Blum, Robert Ellis, Don Ettlinger and Helen Logan
Music Director: Alfred Newman
Song Score: Mack Gordon and Harry Warren
Dance Director: Nick Castle
Art Direction: Richard Day, Albert Hogsett
Set Decoration: Thomas Little
Costume Design: Travis Banton
Cinematography: J. Peverell Marley, Leon Shamroy
Film Editing: Robert L. Simpson

Cast: Alice Faye [Vicki Adams], Jack Oakie [Chuck Hadley], John Payne [Rix Martin], Cesar Romero [Bruce Chadwick], Four Ink Spots [Specialty], James Newill [Singer], Nicholas Brothers, Wiere Brothers [Specialties], Mary Beth Hughes [Secretary], Eula Morgan [Madame Rinaldi], William Pawley [Foreman], Lucien Littlefield [Justice of the Peace], Edward Conrad [Conductor], Gary Breckner, Mike Frankovich, John Hiestand [Announcers], Eddie Acuff [Jimmy], Mildred Gover [Jennie], Syd Saylor [Brakeman], Eddie Kane [Headwaiter], William Halligan [Mr. Porter], Frank Orth [Counter Man], Herbert Heywood [Doorman], Charles Tannen [Usher], Dorothy Dearing [Bruce's Girl Friend], Fred "Snowflake" Toones [Porter], Sam McDaniel [Porter], John Sinclair [Lineman], Arno Frey [Waiter]

Musical Program: Where You Are (sung by Alice Faye, John Payne and Four Ink Spots); Long Ago Last Night (Alice Faye and Girls Chorus); I Take to You (Alice Faye, John Payne and Jack Oakie); It's All in a Lifetime (Alice Faye); The Great American Broadcast (James Newill and Chorus); Alabamy Bound (Four Ink Spots); I've Got a Bone to Pick with You; Give My Regards to Broadway; If I Didn't Care